The five worst school lunches served at American schools. Apparently bar appetizers are “kid-friendly.” Yikes!

Banning transfats, publishing calorie counts at fast food restaurants, banning high fructose corn syrup, revamping school lunch programs … some of these ideas have been implemented into laws in local municipalities, some of them have been adopted by food chains looking for a marketing advantage and some of them could be passed in your town sometime soon. We might even be taxed an extra 25 cents, a “sin tax” every time we reach for a twinkie or an ice cream cone.

What do you think about it? Can you legislate “fat people”? Is that even fair? Are we just creating a new level of classicism?

The beginning of episode two opens with our intrepid food revolutionary back at the radio mike defending a newspaper article that slagged his efforts to fight obesity in Huntington, WV.

The premise of the show is to drop a fish-out-of-water Brit into the middle of the unhealthiest city in the US. Huntington, WV leads the country in heart disease, diabetes and obesity rates. More than 50% of it’s population is obese, not just overweight, obese.

Michelle Obama is trying to cure childhood obesity in one generation. Here’s her plan on how to do it. Warning, scary statistics!